Jake’s Takes x Liv’s Gives - Coachella Edition (Premium E333)
After years of speaking to Liv through their computers, the OG QAA hosts have finally met Liv IRL before her and Jake attended Coachella. Liv was especially excited to see The Strokes, while Jake was just hoping for a better experience than the uncomfortable Sabrina Carpenter concert he had attended in the metaverse. In this episode the two investigate the conspiracies they witnessed growing around them once they passed the lax security and entered the festival. From Julian Casablancas to some poorly timed skywriting, no one was safe from the baking minds of Coachella influencers - and no VIP Spam Musubi was safe from Jake.
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Comments (73)
As a previous indie sleaze babe, I’m low key offended they had inter pool play at the same time as the strokes. Talk about an impossible choice
Um. Who are the people predicting Radiohead playing Coachella? It's difficult to think of any band with an equivalent fame level, being less welcomed by the Coachella crowd. Has this been a rumor for 18 years or something? Idgi
Scary frontman vibes story- Monster Magnet. Opening for HIM in Las Vegas, day after Thanksgiving 2004, staring at 19yo me to the point a dude beside me in the front row said I could totally get backstage if I wanted to, before getting uncomfortable as well. Also Julian, I was a fatty back then too... So, you probably are right with the under 23 part, fatties are still allowed... Can't hear them without getting the creeps.
No one tell Jake that Royal Otis has pretty much been cancelled in their native Australia.
“Kubrick’sThe Birds” lol
"They think Monchichi is some kind of fleshlight."
I need to hear Jake's Crimson Desert take.
the phrase “rock and roll alcoholic” makes me want to learn guitar
We desperately need a Liv’s Gives centered on the Dune series(Frank Herbert only), particularly on the latter books.
There were a couple things in that Lego AI videos I noticed; - Conflating jewish caricatures (orthodox attire) with Israel in a few instances - Accusing the Trump administration of worshipping Baal Amidst some legitimate criticisms, but this is textbook narrative laundering through legitimate grievance.
Just here to say that Coachella used to be cool and it makes me sad what it’s turned into. I first went when I was 17 in 2004 to see the pixes when they reunited after thinking I’d never get to see them play. Tickets were like $120 for the weekend. Sad!!
Noone went to see Nine Inch Noize? Bunch of NPCs
Could someone explain why the view that Gazan resistance is analogous to slave revolts grants Zionist assumptions? That's kind of my view and I'd like to understand why.
I've never hated anyone as much as I hate every single influencer who was clipped or quoted in this episode.
The ONLY reason I would go to Coachella is to see the QAA guys and Liv! The rest can suck it. 🤣
Right now, I think woke means whatever conservative tools think is dorky. Basically, anything the daily wire would make fun of. It's always been vibes based.
Not always, the term originated decades ago in the black liberation movement (i forget who specifically coined the term). Not about vibes back then.
Come to Kilby Block Party as next QAA excursion
This was really fun to listen to. I live in a van and stay in Coachella/Indio/Palm Springs from November to March and it’s so beautiful. It felt like you were talking about my hometown, even though I just stay there in the winter sometimes. I always leave before Coachella though!
Last episode of this seasons Spectral Voyager?! I'm not ready for it to end yet!
Geese is the ultimate coworker music. 🤘Liv Agar.
Come to Detroit for Movement. You can dance 24/7 for a while week around memorial Day weekend.
I'm actually considering coming from Cincinnati just to go to a rooftop afterparty to see Dubtribe do a sunrise set.
Cameo by Alexander from Minion Death Cult
Lol what a crossover
I can’t believe you guys talked for an hour and a half and ZERO mention of the Kamp Poosh tragedy. Kourtenys decorations and umbrellas were blown over! Tents were rustled! A lady got a bruised leg when a table fell on her. For Shame , QAA. Show some humanity.
Julian is a poker player? Hear me out: QAA charity poker tournament.
I have to disagree with the Carti take, for the sole reason that if Playboy Carti was a video game he would be made by Ubisoft
Can you make an episode on the conspiracies that have actually come true?
I'm not sure that Strokes ending got the credit it deserved. Borderline reductive. Name a bigger, left coded, Coachella moment, ever? Particularly in context of our time. This was a huge, huge moment. Just felt you were a little reductive about it.
It seemed like the critique was valid but perhaps a bit myopic in the larger context, which greatly increased it's import.
Not Jake using Afterpay for his VIP tix
My last time was also 2019. How crazy. I dropped a tab on day 3 and there were so many more people on day 3, it was fuckin me up. I was legit thinking all the poser ass influencers were ETs and I accidentally stumbled into a trip that I wasn't invited to and they all knew that I knew that they were fucking aliens. Shit was crazy. Best trip I ever had. It was an incredible weekend.
Having moved to Palm Springs a month ago, can confirm this is a stunning place. I look at the mountains and it’s so flat and hot, I feel like I’m on the surface of the moon.
Jake’s terminal 90’s kid manchild brain that he calls the Jumbotron “megatron” and nobody even notices
Liz hadn’t seen the lego slop until Coachella?? Shatters my perception and expectation that podcasters be terminally online so I don’t have to be.
gullet it a fun word
What a nice episode to listen too
Love you all, could’ve done without the Geese discussion. “Son of a sync licensing company founder hits the big time”
Is the culture around festivals like this is "cyclical", as in, it's making a comeback...OR...did it never really go away? I would be interested in the idea its making a return of somekind, like some new hippy revolution, but I'm not sure. It kinda seems like we've just been doing this since the 70's (or whatever) and it hasn't really changed that much.
It sounds to me like the big festival scene is in serious decay, not less participants but way more about making content and money than ever before, to where it's barely even about the music anymore. Luckily there are other - much smaller, for the most part - festival scenes that aren't all about money. Imagine festival in Washington is my favorite, less than a thousand people, everyone on psychedelics, and every person you meet is an instant friend. Nothing but love and free self expression, not partying or selling or making $$
interpol forever
Gotta love the “there was a mysterious illness at Coachella” BS. It’s not a mystery it’s called Covid(or the flu). You all just got sick because it was thousands of people in very close quarters with little sleep and a lot of drug use. It’s a perfect spot for any viral disease to spread. Nerds like me call it con crud. I use to get it a lot after Gencon until I started basically bathing in hand sanitizer when I was there.
Times may be tough but I got to hear Liv Agar say "Poop from a butt." Before I died. Plus, Jake gives Tim Robinson energy in this episode and I'm here for it.
Enjoy the music you like, no matter how you discover it. It doesn’t matter if it was in a basement at a party, or halftime at an NFL game, if you hear and you like it, who cares?
I discovered quite a few artists through video games. EA sport and racing games are really good for that as is GTA. :D
In my head, the meeting went like: Jake: Liv Agar? Liv: Liv Agar Together: LIV AGAR
and both of them are played by John Malkovich
Julian's aside on The Strokes and Interpol representing different times is very funny because not only did their debut albums come out about ten months apart, The Strokes dropped first
In a similar vein, Guns 'n' Roses' first album came out less than two years before Nirvana's.
god excited to have jake back again and what an ep for it!!
Jake's Interpol voice rules!
90 minute Jake x Liv x Julian episode let's fucking gooooo
I'm still mad at myself for not going to Lolla in '07 for Daft Punk but the 2008 lineup top to bottom was fucking awesome .
I'm still mad at my dad for not letting me go to Lolla in '94 when I was 15 - my favorite band Primus was there and it was the last year Alice in Chains had Layne Staley. An opportunity that never came again!!
Despite being a desert town, Palm Springs actually has plenty of water because it’s on top of a big aquifer (that’s where the “Springs” part of the name comes from)
"Plenty" doing a lot of work. The geography and co-evolved ecosystem has excess water for an entire city of boomer golfers? Did central valley not sink 20 feet in your mind?
wait guys i was listening to this as background noise (sorry) while writing my first ever podcast episode about the geese debacle and i just tuned back in and YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT GEESE omg hi
Jake takes, liv gives, Julian interrupts constantly
And we wouldn't have it any other way!!
I went to Couchella and had a great time! Living room seating, no bathroom line, affodable drinks. 10/10 would not go again. Devo, Suicidal Tendencies, Nine Inch Noize, and Tomora (Aurora & Tom Rowlands for Chemical Brothers, who were absolutely amazing) were my highlights.
Jake takes, Liv gives and Julian feels
Liv agars actually
at a festival that costs thousands of dollars seeing some of the best musicians ever and you still gotta convince yourself there's a nefarious, demonic presence there to validate your christian victim complex
the interpol impression is KILLING me
LIV IS GIVING!
I super relate to Jake having the instruments looping in his head, I have snippets of songs on repeat internally literally 24/7. I am pretty sure I have OCD so I wonder if that has anything to do with it
Listened for 5 more seconds and Liv said it was actually ADHD wonderful
As an interpol fan that whole bit was quite accurate
I haven’t even listened to more than a minute and I already love this. Happy for y’all
*cream
first??
Liv Agar!